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Covers Contest: Reading Recipes

Cookbooks are likely the only books you keep in your kitchen. This is because cookbooks make you hungry, and if you weren’t already in the kitchen after you picked one up, you’d probably head there pretty soon after. But we also put cookbooks in the kitchen because, unlike any of our other books, they are tied inexorably to a single domestic task. Cookbooks are tools, teachers, challenges, and companions (the good ones, anyway). This week’s contest features four cookbooks that are reliable and comprehensive, and should always be stored within a few paces of a stove.

The author of the first fully correct response wins a copy of the new anthology “On the Money: The Economy in Cartoons, 1925-2009.” Submit your answers via e-mail, and in the event of confusion, consult our official rules.